Our thoughts and condolences are with the Royal Family following the sad news of the death of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Many of our members were inspired to enjoy the outdoors through the DofE Award. The picture shows members meeting the Duke in 1979. pic.twitter.com/SSTC30CcPB
At 4.56pm yesterday we were requested by NWAS to assist with a 22yo male who had fallen at Tiger’s Clough. The team treated him with pain relief & placed a vacuum splint around the injured ankle, then stretchered him to the waiting ambulance.We wish him a speedy recovery. pic.twitter.com/ZEbrt4vaLT
1/2 From all of us at BMRT we would just like to thank every one of you that donated to us this weekend. It was a hard decision for us not to do our usual Easter meet and great around Rivington but for the safety of our team members, we decided against it. pic.twitter.com/xkNOo8equX
It's been a busy start to 2021 for the team. Three months in & we are already on our way to more callouts than we had last year. If you can support us in our work, please feel free to donate via boltonmrt.enthuse.com/#!/ #BoltonMRT #Volunteers #Donate #Rescues #BeenBusy pic.twitter.com/KhDxLT92N8
1/ Today is usually a busy and important day for the team. With so many people visiting the Rivington area in particular, we would usually have our displays set up around the area to help educate people about outdoor safety. pic.twitter.com/0iKNZaqWU1
Thank you to everyone who nominated us for these awards and huge congratulations to Ricky Lomax for winning the Emergency Service Award 🥳 #BoltonNewsLockdownHeroes twitter.com/theboltonnews/…
Our water team has been very busy over the past few weeks! Congratulations to our new MOD2’s and well done to our MOD4’s for passing their refreshers course 🥳 facebook.com/58756182794365… #BoltonMRT #WaterSafety #Training pic.twitter.com/3MaO6XkOnF
If you see a fire in the countryside, report it immediately 🔥 Leave the area as soon as possible and dial 999 📱 If you witness illegal activity report it to Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 pic.twitter.com/I7eRXLwQx4
❓ Did you know that moorland and wildfires can be started in a number of ways? Sadly, many are started deliberately, however, some can break out by people being careless with barbecues, campfires or not disposing of cigarettes properly 🔥 pic.twitter.com/WDHdEHFcXA
We appreciate this encouraging message of support from our colleagues at NWAS twitter.com/NWAmbulance/st…
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Oct 23 2014
Team membership recruitment 2014 intake, Session 1 of 3 took place this evening
With the opening of our team once more to operational membership recruitment, as a result of our having a limited number of current vacancies, we published a website ‘News’ item on Tuesday 9th September 2014.
We subsequently received fourteen positive applications, all of whom were sent an email reply, inviting them to our three recruitment intake sessions in October.
Nine of the fourteen applicants went on to confirm their attendance on our Thursday evening 23rd, all day Sunday 26th and Wednesday evening 29th October recruitment sessions, by returning their booking form and registration fee.
This evening eight of the nine actually attended our first session of three for our 2014 recruitment intake, commencing at 18.50hrs at our Ladybridge hall Base / HQ.
The eight included a Structural Engineer, an Accident and Emergency Nurse, a Trainee Teacher, a retired college lecturer, an Accident and Emergency Doctor, a Facilities Manager, an Operations Manager and an NWAS Clinical Advisor, with ages ranging from 27 to 54.
Amongst these eight was Team Support Group member Steve James, who now wishes to transfer from our Support Group membership to our operational Call Out list membership.
All are of course experienced hill walkers, with some having additional outdoor experience such as Mountaineering abroad, trekking, and 1/2 marathon running.
Twelve team operational Call Out list members were on hand to greet and meet them this evening, plus Support Group member and our Team Secretary Gillian Gregory.
Gillian had kindly prepared a welcome buffet at the start of their evening, which was followed by an introductory session by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE, who also introduced his twelve colleagues present tonight.
All eight were then presented with a very comprehensive information folder on the Bolton MRT.
Two DVDs on the role of mountain rescue within the UKSAR framework were shown, followed by a basic navigation written test – easy but not that easy for some tonight!
Team member since the late 1980s Diane Blakeley was next, giving an excellent overview powerpoint presentation on the work and the role of the team past and present.
Then it was our Equipment Officer – Water, David Cook, who demonstrated the personal kit we are provided with by the team and what items we as MRT members carry in our rucksacs.
It was then downstairs in to our garage for a relatively quick overview of all the search and rescue equipment we carry on each of our four Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance Response vehicles.
With time pressing on, it was back upstairs to our lecture room, for a presentation by our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE and our Training Officer Alistair Greenough, on our membership requirements, and yet more facts, anecdotes and details about the role of Bolton MRT.
A briefing about the full ‘hill day’ due to take place on Sunday 26th October, and a question and answer session rounded off this evening for the three women and five men all interested in joining the Bolton MRT who kindly gave up their time to attend tonight and find out more about us.
All the team members present tonight are now looking forward to making the acquaintance of the eight once again this Sunday.
Alongside the team members mentioned above, the following operational members were also present ; Kris Kilshaw, Phil Crook, Chris Tennant, Equipment Officer – Medical Nigel Booth, Equipment Officer – IT and Communications Steve Fletcher, Webmaster and all things IT Paul Brain, and Equipment Officer – Base and catering Paul Copley.
We will be carrying out a series of mountain rescue mini exercises with the eight on Sunday 26th October, in the Hordern Stoops, Wards Reservoir (Blue Lagoon) areas and Anglezarke Quarry, do look out for us and wish the eight all best wishes on their aspirations to join the team.
By Paul Brain • Training